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...stock for $40 a share. On last week's weak Wednesday, the most actively traded New York Exchange stock was MGIC, the largest U.S. private insurer of residential mortgages. Though it sold for only $43 five weeks ago, MGIC stock was up to $49 last week because the Baldwin-United Corp., maker of Baldwin pianos, has offered to pay $52 a share as part of a takeover move...
...conducted several studies related to civil liberties, including two on working women. Robert Palmer, a Polaroid employee who helped develop that company's affirmative action program, also received an award at the presentation banquet last Sunday. The awards, established after the death last August of ACLU founder Roger N. Baldwin '04, will be presented every year...
...second offering, The V.I.P., is a bourgeois drawing-room play, centered on J.G. Baldwin (Cliff Robertson), an important business type, and his executive secretary, Kate Worthington (Julia Newton). As they sit in the V.I.P. lounge waiting for Baldwin's flight to be announced, he begins to ask her about her past. Kate tells him how she no longer wishes to see her mother, being scornful of such "insidious apathy" with which her parent seems afflicted. The mother seems to have returned to Tennessee, whence she came. "Ah, I used to have a weakness for Southern belles," declares our hero...
Exposing concern for his son, sent to a military academy "to become a man"--why else?--amid his concern for the effectiveness of his payoffs, Robertson's Baldwin is, in character and enactment, as limited as only a Hollywood actor could imagine corporate America to be. Julie Newton, whose delivery of an endless stream of "Yes, sir's" would warm Patton's heart, has precisely the degree of emotionlessness one would require of a secretary. Unfortunately, one requires a bit more than that from an actress...
DIED. Roger Baldwin, 97, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and a lifelong champion of individual freedom; of heart disease; in Ridgewood, N.J. The patrician but plain-living Baldwin worked as a probation officer, college professor, common laborer and executive secretary of the Civic League of St. Louis before joining with two New York City lawyers in 1920 to form the A.C.L.U., which he headed until 1950. Though Baldwin was labeled a leftist for his defense of radical labor unions during the 1920s and 1930s, the A.C.L.U. also came to the aid of Darwinian high school Teacher John...